Hungarian Biochemist Karikó to Receive Paul Ehrlich & Ludwig Darmstaedter Prize
- 22 Sep 2021 8:34 AM
- Hungary Matters
The prize comes with a 120,000 euro reward.
In a statement, the foundation said BioNTech “established a technology platform that is likely to initiate a paradigm shift in some areas of medicine”.
“The spectacularly rapid development of a highly effective vaccine against the coronavirus disease COVID-19, which has proven to play a decisive role in the worldwide containment of the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic, has been an outstanding success,” the statement said.
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